Hello, Fedora supports powerpc, right?! May I suggest that the XS folks first get the base software working and then worry about the Linux distribution. I just don't believe that at this stage it really much matters whether its Fedora, Ubuntu, or whatever.
Btw., I am just an XS list observer! Martin.. all the power to you. Marc On Aug 16, 2008, at 10:48 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, > > One more argument for a debian based XS: Debian supports various > non-x86 > architectures, which are good candidates for a compact, affordable, > and low > power XS server: > > - The mipsel based fuloong mini ( http://www.lemote.com/english/ > fuloong.html ) > engineered by the chinese Jiangsu Lemote Technology Corporation > limited ( > www.lemote.com ). Debian is fully supported. The installed > distribution > (rays, http://openrays.org/ , > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunwah_Linux_ > (rays_Linux_Distribution) ) is debian > based. The people at lemote are very supportive. The fuloong units > I have > received have a 120GB hard drive and 512 MB memory. > > - The powerpc based Bubba 2 ( > http://excito.com/bubba/technical-specifications.html ) engineered > by Excito in > Sweden ( www.excito.com ). They are very supportive too and are > ready to assist > us. The distribution is debian too. > > - etc. > > Best regards > > Samy > > > > Quoting Pia Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Hi all, >> >> I have a few projects I am helping support and was thinking about >> doing an >> Ubuntu based XS option. I wanted to find out whether anyone else was >> interested in this, and whether any work has been done. My reason for >> wanting to do an Ubuntu version is purely because it is a more >> familiar >> platform for me, and I though having easy to roll out XS deb >> packages might >> be useful to others. I'll also be doing a bunch of testing of the >> ds-backup >> packages and some additional functionality we need for some >> Australian/Pacific rollouts. I'll keep the list updated on our >> progress. >> >> Martin mentioned that there are apparently 6 packages for the >> Fedora based >> XS project, so I need to find those out to port to Ubuntu please :) >> >> Thanks all! >> >> Cheers, >> Pia >> >> -- >> Linux Australia http:// >> linux.org.au/ >> Open Source Industry Australia http:// >> osia.net.au/ >> Software Freedom Day http:// >> softwarefreedomday.org/ >> >> "There is no darkness but ignorance." - William Shakespeare >> _______________________________________________ >> Server-devel mailing list >> Server-devel@lists.laptop.org >> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Server-devel mailing list > Server-devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel